Fossils: the Key to the Pastpart of SERC Print Resource CollectionRichard Fortey This book is targeted to the general public and explains geologic time, rocks, and fossils (both in terms of the organisms that made them and how they formed). It also discusses evolution, ...

Evolution and Ecology: The Pace of Lifepart of SERC Print Resource CollectionK.D. Bennett This book deals with punctuated-equilibrium evolutionary mechanisms during the Quaternary. The author argues that frequent (on a scale of tens of thousands of years) ice ages and related climate ...

Creationism's geologic time scalepart of SERC Print Resource CollectionDonald U. Wise This is a detailed description and debunking of the entire Flood-Creation timeline supported by most Creation Scientists. The Flood-Creation timeline begins 6,000 years ago with the creation of the ...

Science and Earth History: the Evolution/Creation Controversypart of SERC Print Resource CollectionArthur N. Strahler This is basically an earth science textbook written to refute creation science arguments. For each topic (such as cosmology and astronomy or stratigraphy and the fossil record), he has chapters ...

Using Melting Ice to Teach Radiometric Datingpart of SERC Print Resource CollectionDonald Wise Use melting ice to teach students about radioactive decay. With a ring stand, set a funnel of ice over a graduated cylinder and students can construct a decay curve by plotting meltwater volume ...

A Student-Centered Project for Earth System Historypart of SERC Print Resource CollectionRebecca Teed This article in the Journal of Geoscience Education describes a project in which students play the role of class lecturer. The purpose of the exercise is to reduce instructor lecture time and ...